Expert Huddle Sessions

Be sure to join in the Expert Huddle Sessions at the Community Hub! View the sessions which best aligns to your business needs below. Programme is accurate as of 26 September 2018 and is subjected to changes.

We present current results of our NRP project to
provide innovative end-effectors with integrated perception for professional
service robots such as in in linen handling and transport, irregular-shaped
tool cleaning, and picking assorted items. These tasks are commonly
encountered in hospital operations, environment cleaning and hospitality
logistics. The novel end-effectors incorporates multi-modal perception such
as sight (camera), and touch (tactile & haptic) to guide the grasping
strategy. These end-effectors will be incorporated onto robot manipulators
and demonstrated for various types of hospital logistics requirements.

Self-reconfigurable robots are intelligent
machines capable of autonomously changing their kinematic morphologies to
overcome complexities in the traversing environment or task being handled.
Their promise of high degree of versatility, robustness and modularity is set
to open up a wide range of new applications for robots. However, developing
these robots are highly challenging. While some progress has been achieved,
there are still many open issues. The goal of this project is to
significantly advance fundamental research and development of
self-reconfigurable robots using well defined set of deployment use cases. In
this project, we aim to develop a new class of high performance self-reconfigurable
robots that are able to significantly improve the performance of existing
solutions. Specially, we target three application settings namely, 1) drain
inspection, 2) hawker center cleaning, 3) pavement sweeping.

1:45
pm

– 2:05 pm

Lunch

2:05 pm

– 2:25 pm

3rd
Showcase / Presentation

Title: Importance
of Vision in autonomous navigation for Robots

Presenter:
Mr Abhishek Gupta | Movel Ai

With
increase demand in robotics, the challenges are increasing as well. Robots
must be deployed in a dynamic environment, where they can co-work with
humans. The problem can be solved, using camera as one of the sensor. In this
presentation, we will share about the history of camera vision application in
robotics and how in future, the camera vision can be useful to deploy robots
in unstructured environment.

2:30 pm

– 2: 50 pm

Break

2:55 pm

– 3:15 pm

4th
Showcase / Presentation

Title: Recent
Advancements in Construction Service Robots

Presenter:
Dr Ehsan Asadi | Transforma Robotics

The
talk is about the recent developments by Transforma Robotics, a startup
company in the field of robotics and automation in the construction industry.
Despite the rapid technology evolution, construction services are mostly
labor-dependent and performed with conventional techniques where safety and
productivity are always concerns. Construction service robotics is one of the
areas where robots aim to perform the tasks that are troublesome, dangerous,
dirty or highly demanding in a semi or fully autonomous way. Researches
indicate that robots should enhance human workers, not replace them, as they
do not have the same capability to evaluate and correct their work in real
time. Hence, the productivity of many construction tasks could be
significantly leveraged through human and robot cooperation. I introduce
combining the benefits of automation with the deployment of robotics systems
and human skill/ingenuity to minimize the tiresome part of work while
maximizing the efficiency and safety in particular construction tasks such as
interior finishing and quality assessment.

3:20 pm

– 3:40 pm

Break

3:45 pm

– 4:05 pm

5th
Showcase / Presentation

Title: Robotics
Roadmap - To identify, prioritize and select the most promising robot
potentials and how to realize these robot potentials

Presenter:
Mr Peter Tan | Blue Ocean Robotics

Blue
Ocean Robotics has the overall value proposition to create robots that are
valuable to humans by improving quality-of-life, working environments and
productivity. Naturally, this is a value proposition shared by our strategic
partners, however, even though the potential of robotics is clear, the
question is often what to develop and where to start. This is where the
RoBi-Roadmap program comes into the picture. It is an opportunity for our
strategic partners to get their business analyzed from both a strategic and
low-practical perspective by robot specialists, while also broadening their
horizon in terms of what can be achieved with robotics today and in the
future.

4:10 pm

– 4:30 pm

Break

4:35 pm

– 4:55pm

6th
Showcase / Presentation

Title: Getting
a Medical Robotics Startup Moving

Presenter: Mr
Colin Tan | Endomaster

Robotics has become very prevalent in medicine in
recent years due to the expertise, affordability and clinical need for using
complicated systems to produce better patient outcomes. EndoMaster has
succeeded in producing a working system that can be used in the hospital but there
is still much to do and much to learn. In this talk, I would like to share
with you the key lessons we have learned over the years in getting our
company moving towards commercialization that will hopefully be of use to you
in your own medical robotics journey.

The human hand is capable of achieving various
modes of effective grasping. While these dexterous grasping modes seem
intuitive to the human, they are relatively challenging for traditional
robotic grippers. Traditional robotic grippers are composed of rigid
structural components, which limit their potential in applications where safe
adaptable grasping is required. Soft robotics has disrupted the field of
manipulation, as their intrinsically soft structures allow for compliant
grasping of delicate objects in unstructured environments. This presentation
showcases some of our prominent works in soft robotic grippers in performing
various complex grasping applications. The work evolves from the very early
silicone-based soft robotic gripper that mimics tentacle motions, to a fully
3D-printed bidirectional soft robotic gripper for non-conventional grasping,
to a more recent fabric-based soft robotic hand that combines soft actuation
with smart tactile sensing.

There is a clear trend towards a living environment where humans,
connected devices and robots live in synergy together. Intelligent devices
and robots are augmenting human abilities and assist in a myriad of
applications, such as health diagnostics, surgery and predictive analytics.
Developing materials with sensitive yet robust mechanical properties is
important to achieve seamless integration and digitally augmented activities.
I will discuss a few key strain-engineering technologies and possible
strategies to engineer damage robustness into devices, such as new
self-healing materials. In addition, I will also discuss our recent progress
in developing new scalable and ultra-fast electronic skin platform
technologies for more tactile-aware and perceptive AI robots.

11:45
am

– 2:00 pm

Lunch

2:05 pm

– 2:25 pm

3rd
Showcase / Presentation

Title: ROS (2) and Gazebo: The Latest in Open Source
Software for Modern Robotics

This talk will describe two large open-source
projects: the Robot Operating System (ROS) and the Gazebo simulation
framework. Our organization is the steward of these global projects, and we
have recently opened a development office in Singapore. In this talk, I will
highlight the design goals of ROS and Gazebo, and show how these projects can
be used to accelerate research and product development. Examples will be
cited from many domains of robotics, including autonomous driving, service,
and industrial applications. The talk will then describe new features and
upcoming development efforts in both ROS (2) and Gazebo.

2:30 pm

– 2: 50 pm

Break

2:55 pm

– 3:15 pm

4th
Showcase / Presentation

Title:Perceptive Grasping : Enabling Deployment of Robots for Professional
Services

Presenter: Dr Albert Causo | Handplus Robotics

This
talk will discuss Hand Plus Robotics’ journey from the lab to the start-up
world. First, the challenges of deploying robots in professional services
will be discussed, with special focus on grasping and perception. In our
experience, two of the major barriers in deploying robots outside of factory
setting include perception and grasping, ie, there is the need to sense
unstructured environment, identify huge variety of items, and determine the
right grasping approach. Second, A brief glance of projects we have worked on
or working on will be presented. Lastly, we would quickly discuss the
challenges of launching a robotics (hardware and deep-tech) start-up and the opportunities
that lie ahead.

3:20 pm

– 3:40 pm

Break

3:45 pm

– 4:05 pm

5th
Showcase / Presentation

Title: DELMIA
- Rapid Planning. Zero Error & Waste

Presenter:
MrAdrien
Ermenault | 3DS

With Dassault Systemes 3DExperience Platform, explore how Digital Continuity, from Engineering to ShopFloor Execution, can help to capture and reuse best practices, leverage Programming knowledgeand automate the repetitive work of Robot Programming.